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...home, happiness for mobile Americans depends upon the well-tempered automobile. Computer technology may make the car, as we know it, a Smithsonian antique. In addition to the microprocessors under the hood that will help the auto operate more efficiently, tiny computers will ease tensions and make life simpler for the driver and passengers too. Ford Motor Co. now offers buyers of its Continental Mark Vs an option called "miles to empty." At the push of a button, the driver can get a readout on the amount of fuel in the tank, and the number of miles he can expect...
Fink said that he and two assistants have been able to isolate complex DNA containing genes from the chromosomes of the yeast cells, and to successfully transfer them to the much simpler E. coli chromosomes...
...importance of his work, Fink said, is that by injecting complicated genes into a simpler and more quickly propagating organism, he has been able to quickly produce larger quantities of the original genes for study...
...easy courses proliferate, classes in the harder subjects wither away. Calculus and Russian, two post-Sputnik specialties, are extinct. Only 35 students are braving physics this year. Few kids prefer the nononsense, four-year algebra-geometry-algebra-trigonometry sequence to the simpler math courses. The attrition rate in foreign languages is so great that after the first year, students in higher courses are combined in one class. High-ability kids are not taking high-level courses," says Accounting Teacher James Whitty. The students ask: Why should we?" The school's course brochure advises college-preparatory students that they "should make...
Taken together, these proposals hardly seem likely to serve Carter's stated goal of making the tax system simpler; if anything, filling out returns would become even more complicated. The President's effort to make taxes fairer by closing loopholes and broadening the tax base has also had to be tempered by the political realities. Even so, Carter is determined to get as much reform as he can into the package, and the Administration seems ready to take on the many groups that are sure to oppose one or more parts of the program...